Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would the Commissioner retire from Government Service? The answer seemed likely to be an emphatic affirmative ; for, when General Andrews, no admirer of Mr. Haynes, has completed his reorganization scheme (TIME, Aug. 3), the latter is sure to find his cup of humiliation filled to the brim. So thought competent observers...
House of Commons: ¶Debate on rubber restriction was opened in the House. Colonial Secretary Amery held that the scheme was intended to safeguard the industry from the effects of overproduction and that the high prices at present obtaining were due to speculators who had taken advantage of an immediate shortage to force prices up. Said he : "The greater part of the requirements for next year of most of the great rubber companies have been met at moderate prices." Former Colonial Secretary J. H. Thomas backed the present Minister. ¶ Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was asked...
...proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after a dull debate by a vote of 263 to 98. The provisions of this measure...
...soon as the name of "Morgan" was heard, Mr. Anderson showed signs of special alarm-a common and popular habit beside the Potomac. He attacked the approval of the merger by the C. & O. stockholders as a "stock manipulation and a financing-rigging scheme." As to details, however, Mr. Anderson failed to specify. Just how these matters were relevant to the fairness of the Van Sweringen merger plan, he failed to state. Ex-Secretary of War Baker demanded that the scope of the inquiry in the future be limited. The I. C. C., impartial but sweltering, reserved its decision...
Among the many schemes to rehabilitate the St. Paul Railroad, not the least ingenious is that worked out by the receivers, Mark W. Potter and Edward J. Brundage, and known as the "Potter plan." This is almost literally a scheme for robbing Peter to pay Paul-the Peter in this case being other Western lines more prosperous than the St. Paul. The receivers argue that any increase in rates in the Western carriers should be pooled among them in such a way as to give the neediest roads the largest share of the increase. If, for example, the Great Northern...